The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-06-11
NEWS NOTES FROM WASHINGTON

,-lue net increase OF cash IN the treasury dur
ing the month Of May was $l0,930,7S9.
The work of Transforming the Washington
Monument lot into a park was commenced this
week.
The Treasury Department on Tuesday issued
warrant for 100000 to be paid on account Of
pensions.
Last week one hundred employees of the Gov
eminent printing office were furloughed and forty
were discharged.
The redemption of trade dollars up to the
present time amounts to about $7,000,000 and
Treasury officials think that very few are out
standing.
During the latter part of the summer the
President will go to st. Louis, on invitation of
that city, and will also likely make an extended
tour of the West
The amount of money boarded in the United
States Treasury on the 30th Of April, 1887, as
show by the TTeasurer's statement, reached the
enormous sum Of S75O, 74S,062.
1t is stated that the President will appoint a
Southern man to succeed the late Justice Woods
on the Supreme Bench, and also that Secretary
Lamar can have the place. if he wants it.
The families of some of the Cabinet officers
are preparing to leave Washington for the sum-
mer. The President will not leave the city but
will locate temporarily at his country place.
The receipts from the National encampment
held in Washington last month failed to cover ex-
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have to be assessed to make up the deficiency.
Postmaster General Villas is at the head of a
force that numbers nearly ninety-six thousand
men, and he is probably the only civil official in
the world who has charge of such an immense body.
Mr.. w. w. Corcoran, Washington's million
aire philanthropist, was stricken with paraly sis
while sitting at the dinner table on Monday. AL
though he i in his seth year the stroke was not
very serious one.
The Secretary of the Treasury has determined
to reduce the number of clerks from of the
States whose quotas are more than filled. Mary
land has many more than she is entitled to and
will suffer in consequence.
Tho employees of the Treasury Department
instead of presenting silver service to ex-Secre-
tary Manning, have decided to have a large por-
trait painted of him to be hung in some suitable
place in the department.
During the absence of the President and his
wife the regular spring cleaning has been going
on at the White House and everything has been
in chaotic condition. Some of the carpets were
so badly worn that new had to be substituted.
Last April President Cleveland removed John
N. Oliver, justice of the peace for the District,
but Oliver refused to give up the office and is still
discharging its duties. Heclaims that the Supreme
Court of the District only has power to remove him.
President Cleveland is quoted as saying: ~
drink beer and light wines myself and I think I
feel all tho b-tt ti,v.., L~S I~
mend their use to others, because I believe that
every man should be law unto himself in this
matter"
Three of the largest pension claims ever acted
on by the Pension Office were passed last week
for Sl3,337, one for Sl2,346 and one for $12,-
AL. The applications had been pending for
about ten years. Two of the men are totally
blind and helpless and the other one has been
bedridden for many years. They will hereafter
receive S72 per month each.